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Association Between Early Lactate Levels and 30-Day Mortality in Clinically Suspected Sepsis in Children

Author(s) -

Halden F. Scott,

Lina Brou,

Sara Deakyne,

Allison Kempe,

Diane L. Fairclough,

Lalit Bajaj

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

jama pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004

H-Index - 183

eISSN - 2168-6211

pISSN - 2168-6203

DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.3681

Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , association (psychology) , emergency medicine , pediatrics , epistemology , philosophy

Improving emergency care of pediatric sepsis is a public health priority, but optimal early diagnostic approaches are unclear. Measurement of lactate levels is associated with improved outcomes in adult septic shock, but pediatric guidelines do not endorse its use, in part because the association between early lactate levels and mortality is unknown in pediatric sepsis.

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